LATEST DISCOUNTS & SALES: PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

The Velvet Mafia

The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties

Darryl W Bullock

$44.99

Hardback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English
OMNIBUS PRESS
04 February 2021
Winner of the prestigious Penderyn Music Book Prize 2022

In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for good.

Through a mix of new interviews and contemporary reports, Darryl W. Bullock shines a light on the lives of the so-called 'Velvet Mafia', including impresario Larry Parnes, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, songwriter Lionel Bart, record producer Joe Meek, and Bee Gees and Cream manager Robert Stigwood.

Compelling and enlightening, The Velvet Mafia explores how the LGBT professionals at the heart of the music industry were working together and supporting each other at a time when being homosexual could mean the end of your career - or much worse.

By:  
Imprint:   OMNIBUS PRESS
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781787602311
ISBN 10:   1787602311
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Darryl W. Bullock is a writer, publisher, and editor specialising in music and the arts. He has written for publications including The Guardian, Pitchfork, the Quietus, Songwriting Magazine, The Bath Chronicle, Venue, Folio, The Spark, B24-7, 3Sixty, The Bath Magazine, the Bristol Evening Post, and The Western Daily Press. He is also the publisher of The Green Guide to Bristol and Bath. Darryl is the author of The World's Worst Records (Volumes 1 and 2), Florence Foster Jenkins: the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer (Duckworth-Overlook, 2016), and David Bowie Made Me Gay. His next book, The Infamous Cherry Sisters, will be issued in December 2018.

Reviews for The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties

'A superb study of 'outlaw' entrepreneurs... detailed and evocative. An extraordinary chronicle of extraordinary times... brilliantly researched, informative and engrossing.' Record Collector 'The overlapping of the musical, theatrical and cinematic worlds is brilliantly captured, as is the way the protagonists gravitated towards - and supported - each other through tough times' Shindig! 'As a gay man I found this book to be thought-provoking, enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable, and as a music lover I found it to be fascinating and informative... a fantastic read, well written and full of interesting facts about the music industry.' Louder Than War '[A] brilliant book examining the preponderance of gay men in 1960s pop management' The Guardian


See Also